The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Gloucester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 16 37 18
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -19
Contract jobs citing jQuery 1 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 1.449% 2.602% 1.136%
As % of the Application Development category 5.882% 11.67% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £301 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £21.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -42.50%
All Application Development
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17 60 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 24.64% 22.30% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 4
Average daily rate £440 £388 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.54% +72.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £54.50 £21.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+159.52% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
Gloucestershire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing jQuery across the Gloucester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Gloucester jQuery Jobs Demand Trend

jQuery
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing jQuery across the Gloucester region.

Gloucester jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing jQuery across the Gloucester region.

Gloucester jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester region citing jQuery also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited jQuery.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester region citing jQuery also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited jQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript